This event is free and open to all College staff – please register online. The full programme can be found on the HPC website.
This event is culmination of the HPC summer school, which brings together the HPC support team, scientific community and private sector representatives for a week of tutorials, lectures and exchange of ideas.
The afternoon will consist of scientific lectures, a poster session and a talk by the Provost, followed by food and drinks sponsored by vendors.
The HPC summer school programme includes businesses such as CUDA, Alinea DDT, Intel tools, Intel compiler vectorization, OpenMP, D-Wave, emerging technologies, presentations from local HPC users, interest groups and much more.
About High Performance Computing (HPC) at Imperial
Today HPC forms part of the essential research infrastructure that the Research Councils, other funding bodies, prospective staff and students expect universities to provide. The computational infrastructure consists of a hierarchy of hardware systems where each level can run larger simulations or more sophisticated models than the one below. Institutional HPC services play a key role in bridging the gap between research group workstations at the bottom and national/international facilities at the top.
The Imperial College HPC service was set up in 2006, and renewed and expanded via College funding, provides excellent economies of scale and flexibility of usage. Researchers across the College are using the two services instead of running their own local facilities that were typically maintained by research staff and occupied valuable space in departments. Over the last five years they have also invested £3.1M of their own grant income to expand the core service, demonstrating their confidence in and commitment to the service. The HPC Service has helped to secure research funding of over £100M by 50 academic staff recently surveyed.
A continuing and successful College HPC Service is a prerequisite for long-term success in an increasing number of research activities. Imperial needs to maintain a competitive position relative to its UK and worldwide peer institutions, which are all investing heavily in HPC hardware and the people to support it.
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